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TIL At dawn on Friday October 13, 1307, the soldiers of King Philip IV had all Templars found in France captured.

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VBVyB TIL that deliberately attacking a parachutist jumping from a distressed aircraft is internationally recognized as a war crime under the laws of armed conflict.
BR1W TIL that in 1921, a man in Detroit went so far as to actually kill himself, apparently in order to then communicate with a chosen spiritualist medium, thus proving that the afterlife was real. It didn’t work.
loWwK TIL Adidas is named after founder Adolf Dassler. In WW2, some of its football line became known as "Kampf" and "Blitz."
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x6yQ5 TIL there have been at least 68 cases of homicidal sleepwalking. A famous case from 1981 had a man unconsciously stab his wife 26 times. The court found him not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Because he was sane at the time of the trial, he was not sent to a psychiatric hospital.